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The Google Drive App For PC, Mac Is Being Shut Down In March (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the end-of-the-line dept.

Google announced in a blog post today that the Google Drive app for desktop will be shut down. The Verge reports: Support will be cut off on December 11th and the app will shut down completely on March 12th, 2018. Users who are still running the Drive app will start seeing notifications in October that it's "going away," and the company will steer customers towards one of two replacements depending on whether they're a consumer or business user. Google Drive the service isn't going anywhere. You can still access it from the web, smartphone apps, and either of the software options mentioned below. Google now has two fairly new software tools for backing up your data and/or accessing files in the cloud. There's Backup and Sync, the all-encompassing consumer app that replaces both the standalone Google Drive and Google Photos Uploader apps. It offers essentially the same functionality as Drive and works much the same way. And on the enterprise side, Google has rolled out Drive File Streamer, which saves space on your local drive while providing access to "all of your Google Drive files on demand, directly from your computer."

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  1. Re:So what's the problem? by thsths · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are two problems:

    1. Why expose all the hassle to the user, when it is really just a new version? Why not make it seamless?

    2. It says it will work very much like the current program, which unfortunately means not very well. Too many times has it told me that everything is synchronised, and for me to discover later that it has not pushed my changes to the server. Out of all the synchronisation programs I have tried, it is by far the least reliable one. It also has a nasty habit of just crashing.

    Now of course the new program might not have these problems, which would be nice. We shall see.

  2. "PC" by xororand · · Score: 1, Informative

    Please don't use the abbreviation "PC" with the implication that the computer is running Microsoft Windows. If you install GNU/Linux on the same computer, it is still a PC.

    The term “WC” has been suggested for a computer running Windows.

    https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...